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The Anton Chekhov Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal page has everything you want to know about the Russian author Anton Chekhov and more! It includes links to everything imaginable about Chekhov such as online text to some of his stories, articles and essays about Chekhov,...
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Marxists Internet Archive

Marxists.org: Maxim Gorky (1868 1936)

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll down to near the bottom of the page and you will find a short biography on Russian playwright, Maxim Gorky. Primarily discusses his association with Russian leader, Lenin.
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Portrait of Akhmet / Larionov

For Students 9th - 10th
Russian artists and poets working during a turbulent decade in Russian history, the 1910s, produced books that combined visuals with short poems as an expression of their uncertainty about Russia's past, present, and future.
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Old Fashioned Love / Kruchenykh and Larionov

For Students 9th - 10th
Russian artists and poets working during a turbulent decade in Russian history, the 1910s, produced books that combined visuals with short poems as an expression of their uncertainty about Russia's past, present, and future.
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A Game in Hell: A Poem / Goncharova

For Students 9th - 10th
Russian artists and poets working during a turbulent decade in Russian history, the 1910s, produced books that combined visuals with short poems as an expression of their uncertainty about Russia's past, present, and future.
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Threesome / Malevich

For Students 9th - 10th
Russian artists and poets working during a turbulent decade in Russian history, the 1910s, produced books that combined visuals with short poems as an expression of their uncertainty about Russia's past, present, and future.
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Tango With Cows: Ferro Concrete Poems / Kamensky

For Students 9th - 10th
Russian artists and poets working during a turbulent decade in Russian history, the 1910s, produced books that combined visuals with short poems as an expression of their uncertainty about Russia's past, present, and future.
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David Barnsdale: Leading Socialist Revolutionaries

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos of the key figures in the Russian revolution.
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Doughboy Center: American Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the failed Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
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Doughboy Center: American Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the failed Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
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Doughboy Center: American Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the failed Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
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Doughboy Center: American Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the failed Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
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University of Vermont: Anna Akhmatova

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives a brief history of the life of Anna Akhmatova and how it was changed by the Russian Revolution. Discusses her family (husband and son). Also lists other sites for more information and includes her most famous poem, Requiem.
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A View on Cities: Berlin: Potsdam

For Students 9th - 10th
Potsdam - Russian Town (Berlin)
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Enter 'Meeting of Frontiers' | '

For Students 9th - 10th
From cossacks to cowboys, this Library of Congress special online collection looks at American westward exploration and expansion, and Russia's eastward reach into and conquest of Siberia. Includes historical information and timelines,...
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New York University

New York University: Literature Annotations: The Idiot

For Students 9th - 10th
Sponsored by a multi-disciplinary Medical Humanities program at The University of New York School of Medicine, this brief summary/commentary focuses on the medical aspects of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."
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University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood

For Students 9th - 10th
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has provided the full text of Paul (Pavel) Birukoff's book entitled "Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood."
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Country Studies US

Country Studies: Russia

For Students 9th - 10th
A 29-page pdf file containing an enormous amount of information about Russia. Includes major cities, holidays, history, geography, climate, natural resources, population, religion, education, economy, government, budget, industry and...
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Signet Classic: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Sixteen-page teacher guide for Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" contains enlightening introductory, overview, and language information. Also included are excellent writing activites and list of...
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Alexander Palace Time Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of information on the last years of Imperial Russia, mainly of its last tzar, Nicholas Romanov, and his family. It offers virtual tours of the palace, open letters and diaries of the family, a Romanov photo album, and...
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NASA

Nasa: Sputniks 1, 2, and 3

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA provides a paper that "deals with the politics, planning and technology of the period 1946-1958" in the Sputnik program.
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NASA

Nasa: The International Geophysical Year

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA outlines the Sputnik program and the political underworkings that allowed it to reach fruition.
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas Libraries: Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of maps (political, geographic, thematic, topographic, etc.) related to Russia and the former Soviet Union.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Maksim Gorky

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative biographical essay focusing on Gorky's political and social activities. Features several quotations from major works, and links to pages on Tolstoy and Chekhov.

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